@avclub-9b972ab65a176d0a3aabf71ea0c01ffc:disqus You seem to be suggesting that the only great film is a film with a great story. I don't buy this at all. Boogie Nights is a very well-executed film and a pretty good story, but it's totally beholden to its influences - particularly Altman and Scorsese - both in terms of…

@avclub-9b972ab65a176d0a3aabf71ea0c01ffc:disqus You seem to be suggesting that the only great film is a film with a great story. I don't buy this at all. Boogie Nights is a very well-executed film and a pretty good story, but it's totally beholden to its influences - particularly Altman and Scorsese - both in terms of…

An existentialist survivalist-horror movie about Liam Neeson fighting wolves in the Arctic? What's not to love! 
I really, really liked The Grey, and I have a feeling a second viewing would move it up a few notches on my list.

An existentialist survivalist-horror movie about Liam Neeson fighting wolves in the Arctic? What's not to love! 
I really, really liked The Grey, and I have a feeling a second viewing would move it up a few notches on my list.

Yeah, it's a great film. I love the way Trier directs each of the encounters slightly differently, to reflect their differing impacts on Anders. And Anders Lie's lead performance is absolutely one of the best of the year.

Yeah, it's a great film. I love the way Trier directs each of the encounters slightly differently, to reflect their differing impacts on Anders. And Anders Lie's lead performance is absolutely one of the best of the year.

The Master, as I saw it, is essentially an anti-psychological character study, which may seem kind of paradoxical, but there it is. A lot of people seemed to find it directionless, which makes sense, because it kind of is. But that's the point. We're watching these characters — one a perpetual performer, the other a…

The Master, as I saw it, is essentially an anti-psychological character study, which may seem kind of paradoxical, but there it is. A lot of people seemed to find it directionless, which makes sense, because it kind of is. But that's the point. We're watching these characters — one a perpetual performer, the other a…

I'm using the AV Club's released-in-NYC parameters for determining what constitutes a "2012" film. This includes The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, which I actually saw in 2011 (at a phenomenal packed-house screening at the Tivoli here in St. Louis, attended by dozens of former residents of Pruitt-Igoe).

I'm using the AV Club's released-in-NYC parameters for determining what constitutes a "2012" film. This includes The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, which I actually saw in 2011 (at a phenomenal packed-house screening at the Tivoli here in St. Louis, attended by dozens of former residents of Pruitt-Igoe).

COMPUTER LOVE (Single Version) by Zapp and Roger (feat. Shirley Murdock and Charlie Wilson)
JOYSTICK by Dazz Band
LOVE IS THE ANSWER by Utopia
LIFE IS EASY by Fall of Because
everything by Sun City Girls

COMPUTER LOVE (Single Version) by Zapp and Roger (feat. Shirley Murdock and Charlie Wilson)
JOYSTICK by Dazz Band
LOVE IS THE ANSWER by Utopia
LIFE IS EASY by Fall of Because
everything by Sun City Girls

No song this year put a smile on my face more consistently than "COVERED IN SICK / THE BARFER" by Municipal Waste.

No song this year put a smile on my face more consistently than "COVERED IN SICK / THE BARFER" by Municipal Waste.

I love that Pallbearer record, but I wouldn't say it's great because it's particularly original. Pallbearer's sound is quite similar to Warning, a band I adore, but I have to say, Sorrow and Extinction out-Warninged Warning. It's just epic, soaring doom of the highest order. I'm…

I love that Pallbearer record, but I wouldn't say it's great because it's particularly original. Pallbearer's sound is quite similar to Warning, a band I adore, but I have to say, Sorrow and Extinction out-Warninged Warning. It's just epic, soaring doom of the highest order. I'm…

Lots of good shit here, in the article and in the comments. I'll just throw out some things I liked that (I think) have not yet been mentioned:

Lots of good shit here, in the article and in the comments. I'll just throw out some things I liked that (I think) have not yet been mentioned:

You gotta try Bolero. Just imagine you're fucking Bo Derek.

You gotta try Bolero. Just imagine you're fucking Bo Derek.